The Lich Builder-Have demonstration map!

[Jumby]

Before I start with the suggestion, I would like to ask that you please play the demonstration map before making a suggestion. The map is attached at the bottom of the suggestion. Just click on it and hit open. It should take you directly to World Editor. Once there, just hit test map. If you don’t have world editor, move the map to your downloaded maps folder and go into Warcraft 3, and select the map. Thanks for taking the time to look at the Lich Builder! Also, I recommend looking at the suggestion through the attached pdf file. It is a lot easier to read. Enjoy!

The Lich Builder
Made by: Jumby

The Lich was in a deep slumber for thousands of years, waiting until a new master called upon him. However, the Lich’s sleep was interrupted when the horrific Titan threatened the island. The Lich found himself awake, without the will of a master controlling him. Now, he must use his powers to combat the Titan and protect his ancient home.

Summary
Difficulty: Hard
The Lich builder has several different paths available. The Lich is able to base or support. Do to the cost of his upgrades; the Lich will normally have to choose between basing or support. The Lich can make a wide variety of bases using four towers. The Lich has many different play styles to choose from, however is very balanced due to the cost of upgrades forcing him to choose what to specialize in.

Stats:
•   Base Health: 300
•   Base Mana: 200
•   Base Mana Regeneration Rate: 1.5 mana per second.
•   Movement Speed: 350
•   Base Damage: 125
•   Damage Type: Normal
•   Base Armor: 0
•   Armor Type: Normal
Spells
   Fade: The Lich fades out of the world of the living, becoming invisible and invulnerable for 5 seconds. If the Lich attacks during this time, he will deal extra 40 damage. 25 mana. 90 second cooldown.
Ghostly Image: The Lich creates another image of himself to confuse his enemies for 12 seconds. 50 mana. 90 second cooldown. Requires Ghastly Appearance.
   Spell Book:
   -Summon Shade: The Lich summons a shade to scout his enemies for 10 seconds. Has true sight and is invisible. 50 mana. 90 second cooldown. Requires Unholy Summoning.
-Death Bolt: The Lich summons an evil spirit from the dead and launches it at the Titan. Deals 250 damage, stuns for 1 second. 75 mana. 12 second cooldown. Requires Death Blast.
  -Infuse Building: The Lich infuses target building with trapped souls, healing it for 300 damage. 50 mana. 60 second cooldown. Requires Infuse Building.
-Animate Skeleton: Animates target skeletal wall, turning it into a skeletal minion under command of the Lich. Creates an Animated Skeletal Wall for first tier walls and an Animated Soldier Wall for second tier walls. Only one of each type of wall can be animated at a time. Requires Dark Ritual
-Siphon Mana: The Lich drains mana from his enemies, restoring his own mana supply. Drains 35 mana from titan and restores 20 of his own, lasts 5 seconds. Costs 10 mana. 90 second cooldown. Requires Siphon Mana.

-Frost Nova:The Lich fires a bolt of ice that shatters when it hits his enemies, dealing 300 damage to the target and nearby enemies. Costs 50 mana, 90 second cooldown. Requires Frost Bolt.
-Dark Curse: Curses the target enemy, reducing armor by 6 and attack speed by 10%. Costs 75 mana. 60 second cooldown. Requires Research Dark Curse.
-Soul Burn: Wreaths an enemy unit in magical flames which causes 30 damage a second and prevents the casting of spells lasts for 8 seconds. Costs 100 mana. 90 second cooldown. Requires Research Soul Burn.
-Summon Tentacle: The Lich calls forth the mighty tentacle of a long dead beast to attack his enemies. The tentacle has 500 health and deals 35 damage. Costs 50 mana. 60 second cooldown. Requires Research Summon Tentacle.
-Soul Bomb: Summons an immobile soul bomb that explodes with energy when an enemy gets close. Deals 250 damage. Costs 50 mana. 90 second cooldown. Requires Research Soul Bomb.
-Dark Mastery: Adds 100 health, 25 mana, 25 damage, and 200 range to the Lich. Also adds an damage over time effect to the Lich's attacks which deals 100 damage over 10 seconds. Passive. Requires Dark Mastery.
Buildings
The image below shows the shelter, food source, research center, and advanced research center.

•   Corrupted Shelter: Trains Banshee workers. Costs 10 lumber.
   -Lumber Upgrade: Increases amount of lumber workers harvest.
   -Banshee Worker: Harvests lumber. Gets 5 lumber a swing, can hold 10. Costs 25 food.
•   Dark Food Source: A dark power source that provides food for the Lich. Gives 50 food. Costs 20 lumber.
•   Research Center: An unholy gate to hell that provides the Lich with upgrades. Costs 150 lumber. Sells:
   -Turtle Scales: Summons a fast turtle that picks up items from the Island. 300 lumber.
Researches:
   -Ghastly Appearance: Allows the Lich to create a ghostly form of himself. 500 lumber.
   -Unholy Summoning: Allows the Lich to summon shades. 800 lumber.
    -Infuse Building: Allows the Lich to empower structures with spirits, healing them for 300 damage. 5 gold, 1000 lumber.
   -Frost Bolt: Teaches the Lich to harness his powers into a destructive frost blast. Costs 5 gold, 500 lumber.
   -Health Upgrade: Increases the Lich’s health by 100. 4 levels. Normal cost.
   Research Improved Lumber Harvesting: Increases worker’s movement speed slightly. Normal cost.
   -Magical Infusion: Increases the Lich’s mana capacity by 25. 2 levels. 500 lumber, 1000 lumber.
 Note: All tower researches cost 10 gold and 750 lumber.
   -Unholy Towers: Allows the Lich to upgrade Dark Towers to Unholy Towers. Unholy Towers have increased damage.
   -Torture Towers: Allows the Lich to upgrade Dark Towers to Torture Towers. Torture Towers can hit multiple targets.
   -Demon Towers: Allows the Lich to upgrade Dark Towers to Demon Towers. Demon Towers have an immolation effect.
   -Frost Towers: Allows the Lich to upgrade Dark Towers to Frost Towers. Frost Towers have a frost effect that slows movement speed.
•   Fiery Shrine: A burning temple that provides the Lich with powerful upgrades. Costs 10 gold, 1000 lumber. Researches:
   -Dark Ritual: Using dark necromancy, the Lich is able to animate his skeletal walls. 10 gold, 1000 lumber.
   -Siphon Mana: Teaches the Lich to steal mana from the Titan and restore his own. 5 gold, 750 lumber.
   -Death Blast: Trains the Lich to harness his power into a powerful blast. 5 gold, 1000 lumber.
   -Summon Tentacle: Allows the Lich to call forth the dead tentacle of a long dead beast. 10 gold, 750 lumber.
   -Dark Curse: The Lich uses dark energy to slow down his enemies and make their armor crumble. Lasts 10 seconds. 10 gold, 500 lumber.
Soul Burn: Wreaths an enemy unit in magical flames which causes 30 damages a second and prevents the casting of spells. 20 gold, 1000 lumber.
Dark Mastery: Adds 100 health, 25 mana, 25 damage, and 200 range to the Lich. Also adds a damage over time effect to the Lich's attacks which deals 100 damage over 10 seconds. 20 gold, 1500 lumber.
Animate Walls: Animates the Lich's walls, allowing them to use their Steal Spirit ability as well as attack. 15 gold, 1000 lumber.
Hellfire Flames: The flames in the Demon towers grant an increase in attack speed. Increases Demon tower’s attack speed by 10%. 10 gold, 500 lumber.
Split Energy: Splits the attacks of the lightning tower so they attack two additional targets. Lightning towers now attack 5 units. 10 gold, 500 lumber.
Frost Arrows: The frozen arrows from the Frost towers allow them to soar longer. Grants Frost towers an extra 200 range. 10 gold, 500 lumber.
Empowered Blasts: Increases the damage of dark towers by 5 damage. 10 gold, 500 lumber.
Walls

The walls have an ability that drains life from the Titan to heal themselves. The ability has a range of 200. Requires Animate Walls to use.
•   Skeletal Wall: The Lich raises the bones of ancient soldiers to protect himself. Has a life drain ability that drains 10 life a second for 10 seconds. Has 250 health and 5 armor. Costs 50 lumber.
•   Upgrades to Skeletal Soldier Wall: The armor of ancient soldiers fortifies the wall increasing health and armor. Has a life drain ability that drains 20 life a second for 10 seconds. Has 500 health and 15 armor. Costs 250 lumber.

Towers
There are four main tower types Demon, Frost, Torture, and Unholy. The main tower types are upgraded to from the Dark tower. The Dark Tower serves as the first tier for the towers.  All towers have an attack speed of one attack every 1.3 seconds.
•   Dark Tower: The Lich's basic tower. Fires blasts of dark energy at the titan. Deals 25 damage. Costs 50 lumber.
The dark tower:

Upgrade paths for the Dark Tower:
   -Demon Tower --> Super Demon Tower --> Mega Demon Tower

   -Frost Tower --> Super Frost Tower --> Mega Frost Tower

   -Torture Tower --> Super Torture Tower --> Mega Torture Tower

   -Unholy Tower --> Super Unholy Tower --> Mega Unholy Tower


•   Demon Tower: A tower that has a flaming attack. Adds immolation to each attack. Deals 25 damage. Deals 4 damage per second. Stacks 5 times. Costs 1 gold and 150 lumber. Upgrades to Super Demon Tower. Requires Demon Tower upgrade.
•   Super Demon Tower: A tower that has a flaming attack. Adds immolation to each attack. Deals 35 damage. Deals 6 damage per second. Stacks 5 times. Costs 350 lumber. Upgrades to Mega Demon Tower.
•   Mega Demon Tower: A tower that has a flaming attack. Adds immolation to each attack. Deals 45 damage. Deals 10 damage per second. Stacks 5 times. Costs 550 lumber.

•   Frost Tower: A tower that has an icy attack. Each attack freezes the enemy lowering their movement speed. Deals 25 damage. Reduces movement speed by 3%. Stacks 5 times. Costs 1 gold and 150 lumber. Upgrades to Super Frost Tower.
•   Super Frost Tower: A tower that has an icy attack. Each attack freezes the enemy lowering their movement speed. Deals 35 damage. Reduces movement speed by 4%. Stacks 5 times. Costs 350 lumber. Upgrades to Mega Frost Tower.
•   Mega Frost Tower: A tower that has an icy attack. Each attack freezes the enemy lowering their movement speed. Deals 45 damage. Reduces movement speed by 5%. Stacks 5 times. Costs 550 lumber.

•   Torture Tower: A tower with an electric charge. Each attack targets 3 enemies. Deals 25 damage. Costs 1 gold and 150 lumber. Upgrades to Super Lightning Tower.
•   Super Torture Tower: A tower with an electric charge. Each attack targets 3 enemies. Deals 35 damage. Costs 350 lumber. Upgrades to Mega Lightning Tower.
•   Mega Torture Tower: A tower with an electric charge. Each attack targets 3 enemies. Deals 45 damage. Costs 550 lumber.

•   Unholy Tower: A tower that fires blasts of tortured souls. Deals 35 damage. Costs 1 gold and 150 lumber. Upgrades to Super Unholy Tower.
•   Super Unholy Tower: A tower that fires powerful blasts of dark energy at enemies. Deals 45 damage. Costs 350 lumber. Upgrades to Mega Unholy Tower.
•   Mega Unholy Tower: A tower that fires powerful blasts of dark energy at enemies. Deals 55 damage. Cost 550 lumber.
Gold Towers
Below are the Lich’s gold towers they are Unholy Tower of Doom, Torture Tower of Doom, Flaming Tower of Doom, and Frost Tower of Doom. All of the gold towers cost 45 gold and 1000 lumber. Requires Merchant.

Unholy Tower of Doom: A very strong tower with high damage. 100 damage.
Torture Tower of Doom: A very strong tower that deals high damage and can use an ability that shoots lightning at the target and all nearby enemies. 65 damage. Has chain lightning spell which deals 200 damage to enemy unit and nearby enemies. 60 second cooldown.
Flaming Tower of Doom: A very strong tower that deals high damage and has the ability to call down fire from the skies. 65 damage. Has a rain of fire that launches a meteor to the ground causing an explosion that deals 250 damage over 5 seconds.
Frost Tower of Doom: A very strong tower that deals high damage and can use an ability that hurls a frozen bolt that slows and deals damage to the target and all nearby enemies. 65 damage. Has an ability that hurls a bolt that chills the target and nearby enemies and does 150 damage. 60 second cooldown.
Well that’s it, enjoy the demonstration map! Please leave your thoughts or suggestions below. Thanks for your time and I hope you enjoyed the Lich builder!

[Coaster_Man]

First off: Don't colour your words in black, it's hard to read, or the reader has to highlight it.
Secondly: I like your idea, although your frost tower is much too generic, be more creative on that. Aslo add cooldowns for your towers (attack speed).

[Jumby]

Okay, I changed the black font haha. And I agree on the frost tower, but I'm having trouble thinking of another tower idea. I thought since Lich is all frost like, the frost tower might fit, but i agree its very unoriginal. The towers attack speed is 1.3 so I will add that.

[_Cooljul_]

You forgot enhenced tower. Yours go from normal to super , or it is suposed to be like that ?

[Jumby]

I did that on purpose thinking that the dark tower would be the normal tower, and the demon,frost,unholy, or torture tower would serve has the enhanced form. If it would cause too much confusion the names can be switched.

[Jumby]

Thanks! And oh woops your right, well they are just the normal walls animated, with a 20 damage attack for the unupgraded wall, and a 35 damage attack for upgraded walls.

[Coaster_Man]

Well for the frost tower, since the Lich is an undead character, you could have a crippling tower, same effect but a different name and visual effects.

[FlashMasterZ]

Also, your electricity tower and normal tower hit for the same amount of damage, but the electric one hits 3 targets?? i don't see any reason to use the normal (demon i think?) towers instead of the electric (torture i think?) towers.
as for the frost tower, it could be somehow related to draining the life force of the enemy, causing it to be x% dead, y'know, slowly making the titan a zombie, making him move slower.
One other thing i noticed, the drain mana spell he has drains 35 mana from titan, thats nothing at all, and restores 20 mana to your lich, which isn't much, but its noticeable. I always thought one of the main uses of mana drain was to drop the titans mana a bit??

All that being said, GREAT suggestion, with a few tweaks it'd be my new favorite builder

[AoW_Hun7312]

All of these posts about this idea being "unique" and "original". This suggestion is just the Radioactive builder with a decent escape and better walls.

[Jumby]

Also, your electricity tower and normal tower hit for the same amount of damage, but the electric one hits 3 targets?? i don't see any reason to use the normal (demon i think?) towers instead of the electric (torture i think?) towers.
as for the frost tower, it could be somehow related to draining the life force of the enemy, causing it to be x% dead, y'know, slowly making the titan a zombie, making him move slower.
One other thing i noticed, the drain mana spell he has drains 35 mana from titan, thats nothing at all, and restores 20 mana to your lich, which isn't much, but its noticeable. I always thought one of the main uses of mana drain was to drop the titans mana a bit??

All that being said, GREAT suggestion, with a few tweaks it'd be my new favorite builder

Thanks! I think your talking about the Dark tower which does have the same amount of damage as the torture tower but, the torture tower is upgraded to from the dark tower for 1 gold. Also a research is required. I didnt want the mana drain to be too OP haha but your probably right. I do like this cripple/ zombie idea so I will work on it in a little bit.

All of these posts about this idea being "unique" and "original". This suggestion is just the Radioactive builder with a decent escape and better walls.

Ehh no not at all. In the sense that he has four different types of towers, sure he could be a little similar to radioactive, however to upgrade towers to the four types you have to first get a 10g research for each “element” and then each tower is 1g. 3 of tower types are very different from 3 of rads. The only similar one is frost which will soon be changed. Also radioactive cant support. He is similar to rad in one area, his towers. Nothing else…

[FlashMasterZ]

He's similar to rad in the fact that his towers can be upgraded to different types, but you know what, its a good idea that is under-used, every other builder just makes their towers then upgrades them a few times, with only slight moderations, a bit of originality is exactly what Island Defense needs now adays, for example, whats the new titans name? Netherious, titan of the nether? thats just LAZY

[Brutalistic]

Lich's attack has too much range. Also, I don't think the walls should attack. Maybe change models to Nerubian Tower or Haunted Gold Mine (Haunted Rock Wall) Other than that, pretty good builder.

[FlashMasterZ]

Lich's attack has too much range.

I don't see where it says that, can i get a quote so i can give my opinion? haha
Edit: Nevermind, i played the demonstration map, 800 range is too much for a builder haha

[Playerof]

in the test i knowtised i could kill a titan thingy by just walling and using his big range and spells so ya make its range like faire not like a pirate un upgraded tower

[FlashMasterZ]

Also, your electricity tower and normal tower hit for the same amount of damage, but the electric one hits 3 targets?? i don't see any reason to use the normal (demon i think?) towers instead of the electric (torture i think?) towers.
as for the frost tower, it could be somehow related to draining the life force of the enemy, causing it to be x% dead, y'know, slowly making the titan a zombie, making him move slower.
One other thing i noticed, the drain mana spell he has drains 35 mana from titan, thats nothing at all, and restores 20 mana to your lich, which isn't much, but its noticeable. I always thought one of the main uses of mana drain was to drop the titans mana a bit??

All that being said, GREAT suggestion, with a few tweaks it'd be my new favorite builder

I thuoght of a better way to say this, it rots the titans flesh and muscles, causing him to move and attack slower while dealing damage to him

Also, i played the demonstration map, VERY cool builder, the base you made reminded me of vamps, and the walls have light armor (i know it was just a demonstration, just thought i'd let you know) while the towers have fortified, haha. I noticed that when i used animate wall, it healed the wall, so every wall can be 2 walls if you're fast enough O_o PLUS the heal

[Jumby]

in the test i knowtised i could kill a titan thingy by just walling and using his big range and spells so ya make its range like faire not like a pirate un upgraded tower

Woops proabably should have changed his range haha. The titan is pretty stupid, i have no idea how to make a good AI haha
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I thuoght of a better way to say this, it rots the titans flesh and muscles, causing him to move and attack slower while dealing damage to him

Also, i played the demonstration map, VERY cool builder, the base you made reminded me of vamps, and the walls have light armor (i know it was just a demonstration, just thought i'd let you know) while the towers have fortified, haha. I noticed that when i used animate wall, it healed the wall, so every wall can be 2 walls if you're fast enough O_o PLUS the heal
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Haha yea im not a very good editor so I didnt get the animate to work right.

[FlashMasterZ]

i just wasn't sure if the animation thing was an accident or if it was intended for it to heal the wall when it animates

[Jumby]

The test map was good but the towers seem to attack fairly slow compared to others and have even lower damage. I'm not sure if this would be enough to slay a decent leveled and geared titan buff a little maybe?

Hmm your probably right, the attack speed could be higher to make up for the lower damage.

[FlashMasterZ]

its gonna need to depend on the tower tho, the tower that shoots multiple targets maybe should be weaker?

[Jumby]

its gonna need to depend on the tower tho, the tower that shoots multiple targets maybe should be weaker?

True, maybe just the unholy tower would need it.

[FlashMasterZ]

yeah yeah!

[BluuuePanCake]

MORE ARMOR PLEASE!
then titan will just kill it fast

[Jumby]

MORE ARMOR PLEASE!
then titan will just kill it fast

......i knew i forgot something  haha

[FlashMasterZ]

titan will just kill what fast?

[BluuuePanCake]

titan will just kill what fast?

the builder ... like need more attack refuse